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 6U CHBYSAORIS. the foot of the wooden figure, the work of Scopos. Accordmg. to an old story, Apollo had his name Sminthens, as being the mouse destroyer ; for j||-S2iint}uuuiUgnified "moose,** accocdiag. (p Apon. Strabo^. 612)'^hais~^rai|Stifflent to show that the Chrysa of the Iliad was not the Chrysa near Alex- andria, but the other place of the same name in the plain of Thebe, or the Adramjttene. He says that this Ghiysa waa (m the sea, and had a port, and a temple cf Smintheos, but that it was deserted in his time, and the temple was transferred to the other Chrysa. There is, however, little weight in Strabo's argument, nor is the matter worth dis- cussion. [G. L.] GHRYSA'ORIS (Xpv<raopis: Eth.Xpwraopt^s),& town of Caria, afterwards called Idrias. Accordmg to Apollonius, in his Oarica (Steph. B. s. v.), it was the first city of those founded by the Lycians. Ac- cording to Epaphroditns, all Caria was called Chiy- saoris. Herodotus (t. 1 18) mentions a district in Caria, named Idrias, in which the Marsyas of Caria had its source. It has beoi conjectured that Antio- chus built his city Stratoniceia at or near the site of this old town Chrysaoris or Idrias. [G. L.] CHRYSACRIUM. [Caria; Stratoniceia.] CHRYSAS (Xp{Mras), a river of SicUy which rises in the Heraean mountains, not far from the modem town of Ganffi, and after flowing through the territory of Assoms, where its tutelary divinity was wor- shipped with peculiar honours [Assorus], and after- wards through that of Agyrium, joins the river Sy- maethus about 20 miles fi^m its mouth. It is now called the Dittamo. (Cic Verr. iv. 44 ; Died. xiv. 95 ; Vib. Sequest. p. 8; Sil. Ital. xiv. 229; Ciuver. SiciLip. 325.) [E.H.B.] CHRYSE. [Lemwos.] CHRYSE REGIO. [India.] CHRYSIPPA(TaX/)&r<inro: Eih.Xpv<ninrap6s, XpviTiinrc^s), a city of Cilicia, named from the founder Chrysippus (Steph. «. v. XfrAciinra), [G.L.] CHRYSOANA FL. [India.] CHRYSO'CERAS (Kpva6it€pas i.e. the golden horn, a promontory near Constantinople, part of whidi was occuped by the ancient city of Byzan- tium. (Plin. iv. 18, ix. 20; Solin. 10; Mai-t Cap. vi. p.212.) [L.S.] CHRYSOTOLIS (X^cr^oKts: Eih. XpwroirO' Xirris : SciUari)^ " in Bithynia, near Chalcedon, on the right to one who is sailing upwards," that is, from the Propontis into the Thracian Bosporus. (Steph. s. V, Xpwr&roXis) It belonged to the Chal- cedooians. Dionysius of Byzautium, in his Anaplus of the Bosporus, says that it was called Chiysopolis either because the Persians made it the place of deposit for the gold which they collected from the cities, or from Chryses, a son of Agamemnon and Chryseis. Polybius (iv. 44) says &at those who intend to cross from Chalcedon to Byzantium cannot make a straight course on account of the current which comes down the Bosporus, but they make an oblique course to the promontory Btis, and the place called Chiysopolis, which the Athenians having seized by the advice of Alcibiades, set the first ex- ample of levying tolls on vessels bound for the Pon- tus ; and those which sailed out of it too. (Diodor. xiii.64.) Pliny (v. 32) says of Chiysopolis, " fuit." [Chalcedon.] [G. L.] CHRYSO'RRHOAS. [Colchis.] CHRYSO'RRHOAS. [Mastaura.] CHRYSO'RRHOAS. [Trobzbn.] CHUNI. [HuNNi.] CIBYBA. CHUS (Xo^f, LXX.), mentioned <mly in ^ book of Judith (vii. 18), where Ehrebd is said to be ** near CAtw, which is at the torrent (i. e. the valley) of Mochmur.** These localities were identified by Dr. Schultz in 1847, to the east of the road be- tween Nablus and Jerusalem. "Leaving Tnnnus Aya, I went by Seiloon and Kariyoot, and Jalood, and Joorishy to Abrabah. Aknibah is marked nearly in the right place on Robinson*s Map, but it is a large village, looking very much like a town, not a ruin. Between Joorish and Akrabah, but nearer to the former, is a valley mnmng from east to west called Wady Makh Foori^, Akrabah lies north of Joorish, the two places in sight of each other. Here I thiidc you have the Ekrebel of the book of Judith, near Kkoaa at the Wady (Xc(- lUL^oi) Mokhmoor; and Khoos (Xo^) must be cor- rected into Xovptv.** (Schultz's LeUer in Williams's Holy City, vol. i. Appendix 2. p. 469.) [G. W.] CHYTRIUM, CHYTRUM. [Clazomenab.] CH YTRUS, CHYTRI (pnpos, Ptol. v. 14. § 6 ; Xlnpoi, Steph. B,, Suid.; XiJ6poi, HierocL; Kvtf^fwio, Const Porph. De Them. i. 39 ; Chytri, Plin. ; Citari, Peui. Tab,: Eth^ XT&rptos: Ckytria), a town of Cyprus which lay on the road between Ceryneia and Salamis, at a distance of 23 M. P. firom the former, and 24 M. P. from the hitter. (^Petd. Tab.} It was (mce governed by sovo^eign princes, and was probaUy an Athenian colony. (Muiti, Viaggiy vol. i. p. IS8; Engel, KyproB, vol i. p. 148.) [KB. J.] CIABRUS, CIAMBRUS, or CEBRUS (K/o^t, KtdfiSpos^ K4€pos: Czibru or Zt&ra), a river Ibnn- ing the boundaiy between Moesia Superior and In- ferior, which, near a town of the same name, emptied itself into the Danubius. (Ptd. iii. 9. § 1, 10. § 1 ; Dion Cass. li. 24; IHn, Ant p. 220; Not. Imp. 30.) [L. &] CIANUS SINUS. [Cius.] CrBALAE (KitfdXoi), a town in Lower Psn- nonia. In the Itin, Hierot. p. 563, and the Geogr. Rao. iv. 19, its name appears in the ablat. Cibalis, whence some writers, mistaking this for the nomi- native, give its name in the fonn Cibalis (KitfoXf; ; Dion Cass. Iv. 52; PtoL ii. 16. § 7; Zosim. ii. 18). The town was one of considerable importance, and situated on an eminence near lake ^ulcas, at an equal distance between the rivers Dravus and Savus, on the high road leading from Mursa to iSmiiuiD. It was the birthplace of the emperor Valentanian (Amm. Marc. xxx. 7, 24), and in its vicinity Coo- stantine, in a. d. 314, gained a decisive victoiy over Licinianus. (Eutrop. x. 5 ; Zosim. /. c) According to Zosimus, the place had an amplutheatre sur- rounded by a shady wood. Its exact mte has not yet been discovered, but it is generally believed to have been situated near the modem town of Mika^ nofzi or near VinkoucM. (Comp. Aur. Vict EjpiL 41, 45; Sozom. Hist. EccUa. i. 6; lim. Ant. pp^ 131,261,267,268.) [L.S.] CIBRUS, or CEBRUS (Kiepos), a town situated at the embouchure of the Ciabrus into the Danube, is now called Zebru or DsjibrO'Pakmca. (/tta. Ant. p. 220; Geogr. Rav. iv. 7 ; Procop. De AedSf, iv. 6. p. 290.) [L. S.] CFBYRA (Ji Ki96pai Eih. Ktevpd-nit', Adj.Kiev- partKSs). 1. Magna, the chief city of a district Ciby- ratis. Strabo (p 631) says, that the Cibyratae are called descendants of the Lydians, of those who onoe occupied the Cabalis [Cabalis], but afterwards of the neighbouring Pisidians, who settled here, and removed tlie town to another position in a strong